Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is determined to form an emergency government, according to a statement by Barak ahead of a cabinet meeting on Sunday, reported Pal News on Sunday.
“I will strive to expand the government in the direction of a nation emergency government,” Barak’s media advisor quoted him as saying before the premier met with his team. He stressed that Israel is facing a “complex” situation, adding that the Jewish state is facing “practical risks of deterioration” in the West bank and Gaza, the north and entire region, “and the price is not so simple.”
He said “Palestinians have chosen not to continue the path of Camp David and are preventing a discussion on the bases of ideas raised by President Clinton.”
According to the statement, Palestinians have given up on peace talks and turned to “violence” in order to make-international their cause and to secure support for the establishment of their state without “agreement with Israel.”
Right-wing opposition leader Ariel Sharon said that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak had to renounce concessions he offered the Palestinians at Camp David before a national emergency coalition could be formed, reported AFP.
Barak faces a vote of no confidence when parliament resumes in a week's time unless he can woo Sharon's Likud and other opposition parties into a coalition with his Labor Party, according to the agency.
"I am ready for an emergency government immediately, but Barak has to renounce the Camp David agreement," Sharon said on public radio Sunday. "He is trying to travel in two trains, both going in opposite directions."
According to public radio, eight of the 19 Likud members of parliament are opposed to forming a coalition government with Labor – (Several Sources)
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